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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 98

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.88.

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The machine reads it as

  1. hilotoxtical
  2. queinciple
  3. and in che Sun like fixt Scars must be
  4. concinually decreasine: ITorverer, ies also
  5. cercain, chae ehis Decrease is very inconsi.
  6. derable in any Phore cime, thovoh We are
  7. Ture chere is lome, and our noc beinq sen.
  8. sible ob chis Decreale, is only an AroU.
  9. Mene oF che excccdino Smalnels of the
  10. Parricles oF Firht. We And lome odorife-
  11. rous Bodies, lend oue Sceams Por many
  12. Pears, Wichioue sen sibly diministrins cicher
  13. their Bulk ox Weighe, Wtrich argues che
  14. Smalness ot che Parts oF These ScCaMS. PIF
  15. the Parricles ot Lieht must be extremets
  16. Tmall, since the Sun For (0 many AOeS has
  17. been constaneo emierins Oceans OF RaYS,
  18. Wichoue any sensible Diminurion: Bue chis
  19. can Curprise no Body, who considers chal
  20. Maccer is infinicely dirisible; for ic is pol
  21. sible co astien in Numbers, 2 Ouancies,
  22. wtrereot a Body as bio as che Sun may
  23. constanely, for any finice Number OF YCaIS
  24. emit Oceans, and vet rhe Sum oP em all,
  25. may noc be greacer chan a cubical Inch,
  26. Or eren a Grain ot Sand.
  27. de
  28. thac c
  29. Univer
  30. chat ac
  31. oC che
  32. cate in
  33. differer
  34. oF cho
  35. nOc (0
  36. Ocbers:
  37. versal
  38. Bodies,
  39. in cheir
  40. cher de
  41. Mocion
  42. reltisac
  43. sat Lam
  44. describe
  45. fectS.
  46. condary
  47. Oe Fllit
  48. Planet
  49. iion oF
  50. De, chat
  51. CTances

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 98. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0136?run=74